George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), was an Anglo-Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. * 萧伯纳经典戏剧Pygmalion《卖花女》 * Major Works 《》Cashel Byron's Profession 《武器和人》Arms and the Man 《鲧夫的房产》Widowers' Houses 《英国佬的另一个岛》John Bull's Other Island 《圣女贞德》Saint Joan 《卖花女》Pygmalion 《魔鬼的门徒》The Devil's Disciple 《人与超人》Man and Superman 《伤心之家》Heartbreak House 《华伦夫人的职业》's Profession 《巴巴拉少校》Major Barbara 《苹果车》The Apple Cart 《长生》（《千岁人》）Back to Methuselah 《凯撒和克娄巴特拉》Caesar and Cleopatra * 萧伯纳经典戏剧Pygmalion《卖花女》 * Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. * 萧伯纳经典戏剧Pygmalion《卖花女》 * Character Henry Higgins, a linguistic scientist. A robust and handsome forty-year-old bachelor. He is absolutely uncivilized in his relations with people. Although he firmly believes himself to be kindhearted and considerate. Higgins makes a bet with another scientist, Colonel Pickering, that he can, in six months, make a Cockney flower girl speak so well that she can be passed off as a duchess.
* 萧伯纳经典戏剧Pygmalion《卖花女》 * Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl. Dirty and ignorant, Eliza comes to Higgins and pathetically begs him to teach her to speak well enough to run a respectable flower shop. Grown fond of Higgins and grateful to him, Eliza tries to please him and is ignored. Gradually disappointed at Higgin's ingnorance, she left the 2 men in the nignt after the embassy reception. To assert herself, Eliza threatens to go into competition with Higgins, using his own methods of teaching proper speech. Higgins rudely congratulates Eliza on her assertiveness and
